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So episode 11 was another enjoyable episode. Rina was so cute, especially when she asked Kazuya to cast the healing magic to her. Plus the drawing and "For Maeda-san only" lines the other club members wrote on the board at the end of the episode, I love details like those

My complaint would be it was too fast for Rina to believes and attach to Kazuya. Rina was barely interact on the first 4 introduction chapters and she already believed Kazuya wasn't the one who took picture of the girls from her class when he was the guy who (accidentally, I admit) groped her breast But after that it progressed quite nicely and well-paced considering the one-episode limit.

The confession is also very nice, probably my second favorite. My top was Hikari's confession, even if it was only an indirect one Little bit disappointed they didn't insert another one of my favorite line on Rina arc when Kazuya showed Rina his picture on the Photography Club show case.

Spoiler for Dialogues:

R: "Ah this picture, the one you took after the photo session for my club's poster."
K: "Yeah, I really like this picture. Everyone else is also like this picture, they are screaming, "Ooh, the wife! The wife of the academy!!", especially the boys, haha."
R: "Sheesh, I'm not the wife of academy. Because I'm your wife and belong to you!"
K: "Eh?"
R: "Huh?... Ah, Aaaa~h. What did I just say... I-I was referring to our date on the theme park when we play newlyweds."

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Originally Posted by broken270

I think now, there is enough evidence to support that

Spoiler:

Uchida is the attractive and popular cosplayer, Alice

based off of Yunoki's perception of her, being able to see her through her stealth mode and all.

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Originally Posted by Flower

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I didn't know this was a question, to be honest - to me it seemed obvious. But then, I have been out of the loop in this thread for a while.

It's been so obvious on the latest obvious. I mean Alice talked like you-know-who for a moment there

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Originally Posted by GundamZZ

It seems Kazuya's main skill is shooting photo. He uses it please girls, instead using the guitar.

Before photography, on middle school Kazuya was into other hobbies such as billiard, darts, and playing guitar, but he didn't take it seriously and stop half-way. Guitar is the one he gave up in the shortest time, only played it for 2-3 weeks if I remember correctly, that's why on the game and manga he was trying to avoid playing it when Rina asked him to.

Since I haven't played Amagami I didn't know. But yeah, the date events on main story are took place between theme park, public pool, or the beach.

As for guessing game, every girls do have it, some has it on their main event but mostly it's happen on sub events. You will get an option to guess which girl it was (they usually changed the tone of their voice but in most case you will be able to know who it is), their reaction will be different depending on your answer. For example when it was Aki and you guess Kanon or Mai, the dialogue will be something along these lines:
A: "Why did you think I'm your little sister?"
K: "Because she was the only one I could think to play this kind of prank to me."
A: "I see."
K: "And also, the slight pressure I felt on my back."
A:" Huh?..... Ah, AH! How rude! No matter how small mine is, but it's definitely bigger than the first year's!..... Maybe."

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Originally Posted by Nachtwandler

I still hope ep. 13 would be about Yuuko. It would be stupid to give 2 eps for Tomoe or make it some filler IMHO

Well I finally got round to watching episode 11 which I suppose wasn't bad (for it's standards anyway). In fact the last few episodes haven't been that bad except I can't really put my finger and what's good about them, leading me to feel a little bit disappointed with all the character arcs so far except for Haruka (I mean aside from my usual disappointment). And no, that isn't the reason why. Haruka's arc had at least a lot of drama going for it, but all the other arcs have felt so pedestrian in comparison. Basically, the MC meets the girl, they do some stuff, stuff generally works out without much hassle and then it's happily ever after. I guess it's more..."slice of life"-ish? Except I'd much rather it do some drama because then I don't feel like its suffocating me with the pandering.

Here's hoping there'll be some drama in that bungaku shoujo girl's arc. It seems pretty ripe for it.

Although I don't know why I should even bother since I still think this show sucks anyway.

I'll give this show one piece of credit though: when I found out the stealth photographer girl was the same person as the idol girl, I loled pretty hard.

Ka: "Oooh, Rina-senpai's lunch box seems so tasty!"
Ri: "Thank you Kanon-chan. Well then, let's eat."
Ka: "Okaa~y"
Ri: "Ah--!! Oops..."
Ka: "Eh?"
Ri: "Sa~fe. That was close *munch munch*"
Ka: "WA~WA!"
Ri: "Delicious~"
Ka: "WAWAWAWA!!!"
Ri: "W-what's wrong Kanon-chan?"
Kz: "Kanon? Why are you screaming just now?"
Ka: "Ah Niiyan, nice timing! Hear this, hear this."
Ri: "Oh, Maeda-kun."
Kz: "Hm, you're with Yunoki-san? Do you two know each other?"
Ri: "Yeah, I was introduced by Nono-chan. Sometimes she and Kanon-chan come to my Cooking Club."
Ka: "That doesn't matter right now. Hear this Niiyan!"
Kz: "Hm?"
Ka: "Rina-senpai was eating karaage just now. And then... THAT KARAAGE FELL FROM THE CHOPSTICK, AND IT STUCK ON SENPAI'S CLEAVAGE!!!"
Kz: "What... did you just say?!"
Ri: "Sheesh, it's not something to be surprised of."
Ka: "THERE'S NO WAY I'M NOT SURPRISED!! And then, she said it's safe, picked it up and eat it."
Ri: "Huh? Was it an out?"
Ka: "OF COURSE IT WAS AN OUT! That size... is OUTrageous!! If it were mine, I can't even make a peanut stays on mine!!"
Ri: "Kanon-chan, you don't have to be too bothered by it. Kanon-chan is still in first year after all, so of course it was a little bit smaller than mine whose in a second year."
Ka: ""A LITTLE"?! SHE SAID "A LITTLE"!! NII-YAAAAAA~N!! *sob sob*"
Kz: "A-ahahaha..."
Ka: "I wonder if mine can grow up to be as huge as Rina-senpai's within just a year."
Kz: "That's impossible."
Ka: "That's quick!! And no hesitation too!! Shouldn't you at least console this little sister of yours a bit?"
Kz: "Ahaha, my bad my bad. But think it this way Kanon: It's not only you who lose to Yunoki-san, the whole school loses to her. It's Yunoki-san's fault for being too big."
Ka: "Ah, I see. It's not only me who lose. I guess that's true." *in monotone voice*
Ri: "Sh-sheesh, Maeda-kun..... A-anyway, let's continue our lunch before the break is over. Maeda-kun, why don't you join us too."
Kz: "Ah sure, thanks... Oh by the way Yunoki-san, how many karaage you still have left?"
Ri: "Hmm, I have two left, what's wrong?"
Kz: "Nothing, just asking."
Ri: "Okay then, once again, let's eat~ *munch*"
Kz: "(Hmm, it's an egg roll first, I have to prepare my camera then)"
Ka: *staring at Rina*
Kz: "(Oh a karaage!)"
Kz&Ka: *staring at Rina*
Ri: "W-why are you two staring at me?"
Ka: "As a good little sister, I'm supporting my brother to witness and take another miraculous event."
Ri: "Huh?"
Ka: "KA~RA~AGE! KA~RA~AGE!!"
Kz: "Oh that's a nice cheering Kanon. KA~RA~AGE! KA~RA~AGE!!"
Ka: "KA~RA~AGE! KA~RA~AGE!!"
Ri: "Sheesh! I-I won't easily drop it again!!"

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Originally Posted by Haak

Haruka's arc had at least a lot of drama going for it, but all the other arcs have felt so pedestrian in comparison. Basically, the MC meets the girl, they do some stuff, stuff generally works out without much hassle and then it's happily ever after. I guess it's more..."slice of life"-ish? Except I'd much rather it do some drama because then I don't feel like its suffocating me with the pandering.

Again, that pattern you said are what usually happen on love sims genre. Unlike visual novel, love sims rarely have an unique or heavy plot but they mainly focus of the more free interaction player control between us player, or in the anime the MC, and the girl. On Photo Kano case, that would be to choose what topic to talk to before maxing affection to some point to access the next part of the girl's next main event, showing pictures you took, and asking the girl to go home together. But I do agree that in that regard, the anime failed to show those interactions due to 1 episode per girl limitation.

As for drama, on the game the choice of the club will determine the story version you'll get. Join Photo Club then you'll get Story L(ove) which its main event was more serious, drama-like while if you chose Photography Club you'll get Story H(appy) which has a love comedy approach and hardly any drama on its main events. The anime however took the liberty to mash-up the two stories, but since Kazuya joins Photography Club here the parts of story H version are more dominant, except maybe for Haruka and Hikari arc.

For comparison, here are some of the dramas on the game's story L have:

Spoiler for Wall of text, no spoiler I guess since we've passed all these:

Haruka: It was on the anime where the girls were gosipping Kazuya and Haruka and then the soccer ace dude confessed to Haruka. On the game, during this happened and until you get to the part where Kazuya man up, Haruka will act awkwardly and distant, even the after-school date event during this time was they straightly go home. On the story H which the anime omit, only the gossip stuff happened and when Kazuya started to avoid Haruka, it was Haruka who force her way and made Kazuya realized he should be more confident when Haruka said she was happy after Kazuya started photography, they could talk often again like they used to be, and whenever Kazuya saw her from his camera's finder, she felt like Kazuya was looking out for her like the past.

Aki: It's basically the same when she was depressed and tired of all the pressure and burden to maintain her top student front and be a doctor. But unlike the story H and the anime where Kazuya immediately cheered her by asking to bail school, on the story L Kazuya couldn't do anything until player get to 2 next main events and ask her to saw the dolphin like her mother did. The anime didn't include the story H's date event where they went on a date to swimming pool instead.

Mai: Depressed by her failure on the preliminary result, and since Kazuya weren't there during her test, she was feeling down about her small figure and lack of beauty, making her skip all her club practices and even stop dieting until next event where Kazuya invited her to date on theme park and then making Mai realized she should be confident with her own beauty and cuteness.

Hikari: Pretty much the same like the anime, that's why I said Hikari arc are more focused on her story L version. The story H version were funnier in way how Kazuya makes Hikari taking a like to take people's picture. After Kazuya took many of her embarrassing pictures (an example is when she's eating burger and had ketchup on her cheek), Hikari started to take picture of herself, and then Kazuya's embarrassing pictures as her revenge. They then involved in taking-each-other-embarrassing-picture battle for awhile which making them closer.

Nonoka: Two times happened when Nonoka felt like a third-wheel when she called Kazuya from distance and turned out he was talking with Haruka, ran away and Kazuya had to chased after her and talk to her.

Rina: There's no big, teen drama like above but instead. It was only after their date to beach (which the anime omitted, and we couldn't see Rina in her swimsuit other than on the OP ) and saw Rina smiled a lot, one day Kazuya was about to go home and from the other side of the road Rina called him, waiting for traffic light to be green so she can cross. But then suddenly a truck came and crashed Rina's side of the road. Kazuya ran to Rina's side in panic, and turned out Rina was fine but she was trembling and can't stand up so then Kazuya hold her hand and hug her to calm Rina. Later that night Rina called Kazuya to tell her that she was already fine so he shouldn't be worry. And next day Kazuya woke up early because he wanted to see Rina as fast as possible, turned out Rina was waiting near his house because she wanted the same, to see him to showed Kazuya her smile again to show him that she was really fine.

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Originally Posted by Haak

Here's hoping there'll be some drama in that bungaku shoujo girl's arc. It seems pretty ripe for it.

There should be a drama for Tomoe route if it stays true to the game. But then again unlike the 6 previous girls who have 2 story variants depending which club MC chose, Tomoe only has 1 story, and the official site has its summary:

They already reveal Tomoe's transfer on that summary. I hope there will be some build-up first between Kazuya and Tomoe because so far from 4 first episodes there are hardly any interaction between Kazuya and Tomoe that could make the distant Tomoe to say that secret she's trying to keep from everyone else to Kazuya.

Eh...not exactly the best episode to end the official run of the series in terms of the main girls. While it was nice to see Tomoe development (if rushed in itself), now we got pretty little in terms of the romance, yet they saw fit to have the cheesy train platform run...and the train spelled "welcome" wrong, lol.

Overall, the series was pretty sub-par overall, and trying to compare it to Amagami SS feels almost insulting. They waste the first four episodes on "introduction" (which was little more than names), give Haruka two episodes (which, even then, felt a bit "eh"), and the other girls merely one, all of which felt extremely rushed, resulting in lack of decent character or romance development like there should've been. If they had double the episodes and stuck to the main girls rather than massed introduction, they would've had a much easier time. Only reason I really watched it through to this point was the girls, but the rest made even that feel a little difficult.

But yeah, Kanon getting her episode next. If there's no Yuuko episode at all, I will rage. Ironic how it's a side character that we seem to find the most interest in over the main cast, lol.

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Hmm ... for myself I must admit I would have liked it to be stretched out over 24 eps in the Amagami like style. I agree that it felt rushed.

But overall, I guess I have not really been "disappointed" with the series in general, but rather with individual eps - I thought Mai and Rina were kinda shortchanged, for example (especially since Mai was my fave chara after the first 4 eps/"general intro").

Hmm ... for myself I must admit I would have liked it to be stretched out over 24 eps in the Amagami like style. I agree that it felt rushed.

But overall, I guess I have not really been "disappointed" with the series in general, but rather with individual eps - I thought Mai and Rina were kinda shortchanged, for example (especially since Mai was my fave chara after the first 4 eps/"general intro").

Sorry, sorry....

Yeah, I was personally looking forward to Aki and Mai myself...but creeper Kazuya made it harder to enjoy Aki while lack of "knowing" Mai made it the same for her.

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The whole show felt too meh! If your going to cut it so short and rush it than make it more ecchi to at least do something for the show.. But as it was very little ecchi, very little drama, very little romance, very little character development. Nothing to draw you into any of the characters but the first one as she had 2 episodes to develop her a bit but not much.

I really don't think they knew what they were doing with this series at all.